so i got this fine potted meat food product spam message today, which read: Hello, We are in the process of promoting a website about drug and alcohol rehabilitation. Would you be open to the idea of placing a text link ad on this page: http://www.hybridelephant.com/K2.php, or were they just trolling for pages whose titles [...]
Also tagged rantsi logged in this morning and discovered 78 spam comments in my spam directory… usually i log in and discover – at most – one or two spam comments. frequently i log in and find no spam comments at all (which is the way i like it), but 78 was a bit of a shock… [...]
Also taggedi got 3 (yes, three) spam messages, with attachments, last night, from various addresses at nyc dot gov (which doesn’t mean a lot) with the consistent subject line “Uniform traffic ticket”. upon opening the messages (in a text reader, so that nothing tries to execute and take over my computer), i discovered that i have [...]
Also tagged the very big stupiddespite my interest in geneaology, i usually don’t just arbitrarily subscribe to things like ancestry dot com and genealogy dot com. however, i have recently subscribed to both of them, because i finally got around to uploading a GEDCOM file of my research (8 generations). almost immediately they send me this message that says i [...]
Also tagged genealogy, rantsi’m getting really amused by the spam-bots’ futile attempts to make it look like there’s really a human behind the spam, when the anti-spam plugin i’m using makes it so that there’s a form field that only robots fill out, and the spam automatically ends up getting trashed when that form field is filled out… [...]
Also tagged miscellaneous10,150 spam messages… over ten thousand IDENTICAL messages… what on earth motivates people to do that? it’s SO annoying, and all it does is result in the email address and IP address being blocked from further communication… why? does somebody pay them to do that? if not, then why? i went busking with snake suspenderz [...]
Also tagged snake suspenderz, web designi’m back from OCF, with about 200 photos that i am currently going through, slowly. be patient and all will be revealed… or at least as much of it as i feel comfortable putting on internet… but the reason for this post is that the day i left i got a notice from my anti-cracker [...]
Also tagged technologyi’ve used a URI-shortening service – snurl.com – for several years, so that i can put a short URI into my “shipped out” emails, rather than having my customers have to figure out how to click a URI that is so long that it breaks when i send it in email. i’ve done this for [...]
Also tagged hybrid elephantokay, so i got up this morning and switched on my computer, and the first email that i downloaded said this: Dear member,<br><br> Your payment for $149.95 USD to phones4less@aol.com has been initiated. <br>This payment will be completed once the recipient has accepted the payment. <br><br>It may take a few moments for this transaction to [...]
Also tagged geek stuffi came across this link in my alerts this morning… the graphics are hotlinked directly from some other site, all of the other links are “internal” (i.e. they link to other pages at simpleplanrock4eva dot com), it doesn’t make any sense… my guess is that it’s somehow connected to spam, and probably not in a [...]
Also tagged tina choppso i just thought i’d put it out there… since, apparently, some people just won’t take a hint… every spam comment that is submitted to my blog is marked as spam (which is why it doesn’t immediately appear as a comment: for that, i have to approve your comment, which won’t happen if it’s spam) [...]
Also tagged rantsi woke up this morning to 31 spam messages and nothing else… i wish a merry xmas to all of you who aren’t spammers. i wish a hearty, humourous, slow, painful death to spammers.
Also tagged x-masthis is going to be a heavily geek-ified post, because i am frustrated and don’t have time to explain all of the stuff i already know about this… there is this intensely useful text file on my web server that’s called .htaccess, which does things like control rewriting domains, and blocking undesirable IP addresses and [...]
Also tagged geek stuff, malfunctioning computerstoday was one of the most infuriating days i have lived through in a long, long time… i woke up this morning and turned on my computer, and it wouldn’t connect to internet… wonderful… and, of course, it’s saturday, so the technical support goons at drizzle aren’t going to return any calls until monday anyway… [...]
Also tagged frustration, philharmonic, players, snake suspenderzthe rules (to which i contributed) state that this shouldn’t be done, but rules were meant to be broken from time to time. not only that, but i think this is a very good example of why i’m perfectly happy using the operating system i am using, which is kubuntu, rather than either mac or [...]
Also tagged geek stuff, picturesi woke up this morning, and checked my email. i had 4,856 new messages, all with the same subject line, which included the word “MLM”… please stop sending me these messages. they’re not accomplishing what you think they are, they’re really annoying, and i’m about to block your country’s IP addresses because of it. there [...]
Also tagged bizarre, brain injury, cannabis, corruption, drugs, fnord, i am a terrorist, musici’ve been getting A LOT of spam from, or by way of russia and china recently, and in my normal news perusing, i discovered that the guy who is responsible for the “canadian pharmacy” spam that you have, no doubt, seen in your own inbox – who is really a russian, and only nominally connected [...]
Also tagged linksi don’t often admit to hating pretty much anything, but i will admit, whole-heartedly, to hating spam with a white-hot passion… i’m going to use this as an example of how i determine something which is not labled spam, is actually spam. the following is a text-dump of the entire message, with the headers intact. [...]
Also tagged rantsLinkedIn Zeus spam run targets prospective business marks – i’ve been getting this spam for three weeks and i haven’t picked up the ZeuS trojan yet… of course, i haven’t been clicking on any links in mail that crosses my desk labled as “spam”, and i have been reporting messages that claim to be from [...]
Also tagged rantson saturday, i was present when a post to freecycle south king county arrived, with an offer of a tunturi recumbent bike. naturally, i replied instantaneously, but i got no response. two days later, i replied again, but no response. two days later, i replied a third time, but again, no response. there has been [...]
Also tagged links, rantsthis is so over-the-top ridiculous that there has to be an exception this time… McDonald’s announces a drink made of Shrek-jizz. yeah… not as if i ate at McD’s regularly (or irregularly) anyway, but this doesn’t encourage me in the least. it is either going to be good for business in a way that they [...]
Also tagged pictures, the very big stupidokay, this is getting ridiculous, but at the same time, i’m really glad i got myself far away from 1&1 internet services, and now i’m going to recommend that my associates distance themselves from 1&1 as well… and you spammers have succeeded in irritating me enough that i’m ranting about it in public. it started [...]
Also tagged geek links, host services, rantsone doesn’t tend to notice annoyances that have disappeared, but i just realised that the guy who has been sending me spam with great regularity, at least once a month, for five-plus years hasn’t sent me a spam message since november of last year. i won’t claim sole responsibility for ridding the net of this [...]
Also tagged banda gozona, freecycle, frustration, ganesha the car, honk festit’s only been less than a week, and the spam has already started regarding who killed michael jackson, or that michael jackson isn’t dead. he’s already had two autopsies and there’s already a number of tasteless jokes about him, like this one: since he was made of plastic anyway, they’ve decided to melt him down [...]
Also tagged dead people, hybrid elephant, ocfso, now that the moisture festival is over with for another year, i decided to get to work on the “accepting credit cards using some other service than paypal” part of my web site. they have been sending me two or three messages a day concerning different aspects of getting my site set up. i [...]
Also tagged brain injury, hybrid elephant, rants, the very big stupid
